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Capacity Comparison of WCDMA and GSM
Capacity Comparison of WCDMA and GSM
GSM:
Capacity is hard blocked, limited by the amount of hardware.
TRX number
WCDMA:
Capacity is Soft Capacity, it is a interference limited system, we cant get
the capacity by the hardware quantity.
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GSM Capacity Calculation Flow
TRX TRX
Erlang-B table Budget Erlang
Case study
The
utilization
can be
higher than
100%
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WCDMA Coverage Capacity Quality Relation
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WCDMA Capacity Calculation
1 DL Power
2 Signal quality (Ec/Io, RX level)
3 Iub Transmission
4 (OVSF)Code Resource
5 CE Resource
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1 DL power analysis
DL total power is 20W
If the user use the max service ,one cell can support 2 384K subscriber,
one site can only support 6
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1 DL power analysis
3G:The DL Cell power is dynamic. If User is far away the cell or the
signal quality is bad, the cell need to use higher power to maintain it
service .So the max and min user will be change. The DL power
utilization will affect the cell user number and traffic
2G:The DL power is fixed. It will not affect the cell user number and
traffic
If one subscriber want to access one cell ,it will increase the DL power
utilization.
So the DL power is the main resource in WCDMA system.
Question :
If the DL power is the main resource, can we use high power RRU to
improve it ?how 60W or 80W RRU?
Answer:
No, we cant do like this. Because the WCDMA is self interference system.
If one cell improve its TX power, it will increase the Io, so the Ec/Io will
become very bad.
In WCDMA, We need to control the coverage to improve the Ec/Io quality
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2 Signal quality analysis
Cell A
Cell capacity
Cell B
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2 Signal quality analysis
Spreading and Despreading
Service Ec / Io= Eb / No -PG
Ebit
Eb/No
Processing
Gain Ec/Io range
Other user
interference
singal
Echip
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2 Signal quality analysis
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3 Iub Transmission
If the DL power isnt in congestion, and the DL Ec/Io is higher than -9.2
dB, then one site throughput can reach 5.8Mbps.
As we know, The mobility of subscribers, fluctuation of the radio
signals, the variety of service and the complexity of the network
system has made Ec/Io and DL power in unstable situation, it is very
hard to let the site throughput reach 5.8Mbps.
one site cant support 12 users if DL Ec/Io is very bad or DL power is
not enough
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4 OVSF Resource
SF = 1 SF = 2 SF = 4
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4 OVSF Resource
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5 CE Resource
Case study
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Summary
DL Power Utilization
=DL used power/Total power
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Typical Capacity
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CE Consuming of differenct service
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